How to disable Pulse in GemFire

Products

• VMware Tanzu Gemfire

Issue/Introduction

GemFire Pulse is a Web Application that provides a graphical dashboard for monitoring vital, real-time health and performance of GemFire clusters, members, and regions.

You can use Pulse to examine total memory, CPU, and disk space used by members, uptime statistics, client connections, WAN connections, and critical notifications. However, you may need to disable access to Pulse for security purposes.

Environment

Resolution

To disable access to Pulse, follow the steps in Option 1 or Option 2:

Option 1

1. Navigate to the following directory: ${GemfireHome}/tools/Pulse

2. Rename the following package: geode-pulse-#.#.#.war.

3. Restart locators within the cluster.

4. When trying to start pulse using `gfsh start pulse`, the message "Launched Geode Pulse" will appear. However, the following error message will be displayed in the web browser and access to Pulse will be disabled: "HTTP ERROR 404".

Option 2

1. Add the flag `--http-service-port=0` to the locator start script.

2. Restart the locator(s).

Note: If Pulse is deployed to an external web application server, it is unnecessary to restart them since cache servers are independent.

Additional Information

https://community.pivotal.io/s/article/How-to-disable-the-Data-Browser-Tab-from-the-Pulse